Now that the balcony handrail shoes are in the ellipse looks nice.
A detail of the floor. We laid out the 16" holes at the intersections of four 5' - 6" by 2' marble tiles. Mason says we missed two out of 48 by a sixteenth.
I'll take that all day every day!
Hard to see but the marble isn't perfectly square. Bad fabrication.
The mezzanine paving pattern was a nightmare to layout.
The West Grand Stair. A compound curve.
The architect plan for the East Grand Stair.
I'm going to LOVE this one!
If you don't hear from me in a while, I'll be residing at the looney bin....
Lots of geometry there. Thanks for sharing!
Also, it seems like everyone is talking about BIM now a days, do you use bim or calculate points from the plans and then use either a point stake or point to line/arc type program in the field?
Isn't all that geometry already digitized in the architects CAD file? Seems like you could just stake it out at the desired interval.
So Bow Tie, you would trust an architect's geometry?
Architects are one level of trust below engineers.
They are architects not architechs.
Paul in PA
Here's hoping their geometry is better than their spelling of the word "full". Unless that is an acronym I am unfamiliar with...
It is really un-believable the level of extravagance that is being undertaken. I have read that the projected final cost for the train station will be 4 billion dollars. I believe the price tag for the Freedom Tower was nearly the same.
8 billion dollars...how much is that really?
If each dollar was laid end to end along the equator, it would circle the globe 31 times!
If stacked one on top of the other, the stack would extend 544 miles above the earth.